Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk may not be well-known authors today, but these women were publishing sensations in nineteenth-century America. Their lurid tales of

Just five weeks after its publication in January 1836, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery, billed as an escaped nun's shocking exposé of convent life,

Awful Disclosures A Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed By Maria Monk Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Sec